During the 1960s, the Cold War was fought on many fronts and fields of battle—nuclear weapon technology, Cuba and other geopolitical hotspots, the Olympic Games, to name a few—but the race to space may have meant the most to Russian... Read More

If your children weren’t excited about geometry before, they will be after experiencing Sally Fawcett’s What Could it Be? Challenging young minds to think outside the box or square, art, nature, math, and creative thinking all... Read More

A century of civil war has devastated Japan, but Kano Murasaki has grown up far from the conflicts and battles that rage in the nation. Nicknamed “Squirrel,” or Risuko, all the young girl wants to do is climb trees as she grows up in... Read More

A unique blend of chutzpah and vulnerability mark this story of a girl born with the looks of an ape. Irreverent, unconventional, and hyperreal, "Beautiful Ape Girl Baby" tracks an ape born to wealthy parents. Heather Fowler’s dark,... Read More

"A Seeping Wound" is a dark story of human cruelty, and an ode to the preeminence of the human spirit. In his arresting novel, "A Seeping Wound", Darryl Wimberley forcefully chronicles life in one of the many slave camps of the rural... Read More